Going Kenobi

I sat around Sunday and thought about stuff at length. I got bored of that and grabbed the wrong file from work, so I watched Star Wars. It's what nerdy dudes do on nice days. As I watched and thought about the whole dubtrilo (Double Trilogy), I had a slight epiphany about Ol' Ben. Here it is:

Obi-Wan Kenobi came up in the Jedi game pretty legit and everything was going fine until his teacher died. We'll call this traumatic event number one. He worked through it and grew a beard and found some old friends to help him get through it. He didn't really have any family that was mentioned in any of the movies. Why did I never realize that before? I totally understand, though. you would think that after his teacher died, he would be able to go to his dad and work out some of the emotional baggage that he was holding. That's really weird. The only person that had a dad in the whole dubtrilo was Luke Skywalker and then Leia in Jedi. So let's sum up stage one of Kenobi. He is doing all right after a traumatic event, family isn't really there for him, but he has some friends to kick it with and he grows a beard. Things could be worse and he wil keep on keepin' it on.

Stage two is when he starts kicking it with Anakin Skywalker. He pretty much hangs with him 24/7 while they both work on getting better at the force. Anakin hooks up with a chick and starts acting weird. Eventually turning into Darth Vader and trying to kill Obi-Wan Kenobi. That is not a good friend. Obi-Wan hacks him up a bit and saves Vader's babies. So, this is the second traumatic event: stage two of Kenobi. Still pushin' along, but it's getting a little more complicated than it's worth.

So, now Obi-Wan is running out of people to kick it with. His best friend is "dead," Yoda moved away, and all the other Jedis are dead or have joined the order of the wine and stroller crowd. So, now Obi-Wan goes underground and decides that it's just not worth the investment of time anymore, so he moves out of town and quits returning phone calls. In fact, he doesn't even really bring his celly out with him anymore. What's the point? He starts hanging around the house in his robe and occasionally going down to the Cantina. Did you notice how well they knew him down there in Episode IV? When that dude told Luke he didn't like him, Ol' Ben just handled things and no one said a word. Obviously, not the first time it's happened.

So, Ben just kicks out the rest of his life until his ol' buddy Vader fucks him over on the Death Star, but he knew it was coming and he got his kicks in while he could. So, going Kenobi may not be that bad. I'm probably going to get sued for this and can't even post a pic of Ol' Ben for fear of Lucasfilm.